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Paris attacks: Defiant French businesses carrying on | Paris attacks: Defiant French businesses carrying on |
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Shops and businesses in Paris are slowly getting back to normal following Friday's attacks. | |
Flights, trains and ferries into and out of France are all running, but they have warned passengers to allow extra time for border controls. | |
France's stock market opened down, with the Cac 40 share index slipping 0.8%. | |
Culture Minister Fleur Pellerin said museums and landmarks would reopen following a one-minute silence at midday local time (11:00 GMT). | |
People across Europe will be observing a minute's silence at the same time in memory of the 129 people who died. | |
The Louvre and Eiffel Tower were closed over the weekend amid heightened security. | |
Disneyland Paris is expected to reopen on Wednesday. | |
The theme park said the decision had been taken "in support of our community and the victims of these horrendous attacks". | The theme park said the decision had been taken "in support of our community and the victims of these horrendous attacks". |
Tourism warning | Tourism warning |
Tourism, which makes up about 7% of France's GDP, is expected to suffer following the attacks. | |
The Paris tourist office said the number of hotel stays fell 3.3% in the first three months of this year following attacks in January, when Islamist gunmen targeted the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a Jewish supermarket and a policewoman on patrol. | |
As trading on the stock market got under way on Monday, shares in French hotel group Accor fell 6.9%, while the country's main airline group Air France KLM dropped 4.4% and Eurotunnel fell 4.5% in Paris. | |
"Companies have to continue to do business, but for some period of time they'll give employees a lot of leeway about travelling to Europe and Paris in particular," said Kevin Mitchell, who runs US advocacy group the Business Travel Coalition. | |
The Euro 2016 football finals in France are expected to go ahead as planned next summer. | The Euro 2016 football finals in France are expected to go ahead as planned next summer. |
The tournament final is due to be held on 10 July at the Stade de France, outside where three suicide bombs were detonated on Friday. | The tournament final is due to be held on 10 July at the Stade de France, outside where three suicide bombs were detonated on Friday. |
Cancelling the finals would be "playing the game of the terrorists", tournament organiser Jacques Lambert told French radio station RTL. | Cancelling the finals would be "playing the game of the terrorists", tournament organiser Jacques Lambert told French radio station RTL. |
Smaller businesses have also continued to operate. | |
Mihaela Iordache, who manages the 10 Belles coffee shop, just around the corner from the attacks in the 11th arrondissement, said she planned to donate all of Sunday's profit to the Red Cross for the work it does with immigrants. | |
She said Saturday was very quiet, but people "went crazy" at home and had come out on Sunday. "They're queuing out on to the street from the cafe," she told the BBC. | |
Prof Tilman Black, director of the Berlin-based International Security and Development Centre, said following previous terror attacks, businesses and markets returned to normal fairly quickly, but the exception was the 9/11 attacks in the US. | |
"The response of the American government was quite comprehensive, which led to the tightening of security regulations which affected trade. It also meant an increase in government spending. The war in Afghanistan was very expensive," Prof Black said. |